Frequent polling of Drives? is this a bug in 8.1/8.0 ??

Frequent polling of Drives? is this a bug in 8.1/8.0 ??

Gang I'm noticing something really annoying. I have a Samsung 3 series with samsun SN-208BB dvd/rw running 8.1. all devices installed apparently correctly: no driver warnings, nothing significant in the error log, everything works pretty well frankly.
What's annoying is the frequent polling [implied, that is] of the optical drive - it is empty, it works correctly, but every minute or so, sometimes more sometimes less, it goes into seek, respond, etc... it clicks, makes the cute little noises that opticals do in checking for a disc to play with, then goes dormant again. I see this nowhere on the 7 machines.

I got something similar on Vista 32 bit with no service pack. I didn't get noise from the optical drive. But I got this rhythmical LED light on the HD. It drove me nuts. Finally I found a post that said it's the OS checking if there's a disc in the optical drive. The HD was on the same controller. I did the same test the poster did. Disable the optical drive in device manager. The LED activity ceased.

no, its quite "there" in 8.
not all drives respond in the same way to the inquiry.
disabling is a bit dramatic.
it will not respond annoyingly if either the drive is unlocked/unlatched or something is in there - anything.

I would like to ID the process.

Originally Posted by MilesAhead

I got something similar on Vista 32 bit with no service pack. I didn't get noise from the optical drive. But I got this rhythmical LED light on the HD. It drove me nuts. Finally I found a post that said it's the OS checking if there's a disc in the optical drive. The HD was on the same controller. I did the same test the poster did. Disable the optical drive in device manager. The LED activity ceased.

It's a test to verify the cause. Not a fix. The "fix" is to put something opaque over the LED, or change to a different OS/driver that doesn't have that side-effect. It just so happened in my case that W7 didn't have the side-effect. I had a second machine with Vista. On that machine the disk LED didn't show the polling. But red LEDs inside the box near the memory stick slots did.

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